NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--CBS News will most likely make an announcement as early as Monday that it had been deceived about the origin of the documents questioning President George W. Bush's National Guard service, The New York Times reported Monday.

As of this morning, Dan Rather and CBS News have admitted what Rather described as "an error in judgement" in going to the public with fake documents. Having been involved with the preparation and maintenance of military documents for many years (including the years these fakes were supposed to have been prepared), it took me about 30 seconds of study to judge them. There were so many problems with the documents that it is surprising CBS went to press with them. One can only assume that this was yet another case in which the liberal media, having already made up its mind about an issue, decided to influence the public rather than trying to find and report the truth.